Workday Consultant Contracts

Workday Consultant
UK

The median Workday Consultant daily rate in the UK is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 486 539 680
Rank change year-on-year +53 +141 +129
Contract jobs requiring a Workday Consultant 32 43 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.10% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.11% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 32 10
10th Percentile £450 - £601
25th Percentile £475 £350 £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £565 £663
Median % change year-on-year +3.98% -14.72% +1.92%
75th Percentile £722 £625 £749
90th Percentile £850 £627 £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £494 £625
% change year-on-year +11.39% -21.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,240 39,893 54,783
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 92.77% 94.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,738 25,957 38,247
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,059 2,674 1,534
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £28.41 £37.34 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.92% -17.02% +88.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.90 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.25% -5.88% +112.50%

Workday Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Workday Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Workday Consultant in the UK

Workday Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Workday Consultant.

Daily rate trend for Workday Consultant in the UK

Workday Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Workday Consultant over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Workday Consultant in the UK

Workday Consultant
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Workday Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +73 21 £575 -8.00% 35
Work from Home +31 18 £575 -4.21% 27
London +27 16 £600 -4.00% 26
UK excluding London +57 6 £550 +11.39% 16
East of England - 3 - -
South West - 2 £550 - 1
Scotland - 1 - -

Workday Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 11 May 2025, Workday Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Workday Consultant in the job title.

1 31 (96.88%) Workday
2 16 (50.00%) Finance
3 15 (46.88%) Workday HCM
4 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
5 8 (25.00%) Analytics
6 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (15.63%) Workshop Facilitation
7 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (15.63%) Data Migration
7 5 (15.63%) Validation
7 5 (15.63%) Migration
7 5 (15.63%) Project Management
8 4 (12.50%) ERP
8 4 (12.50%) Data Validation
8 4 (12.50%) Adaptive Insights
9 3 (9.38%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (9.38%) Requirements Gathering
9 3 (9.38%) User Experience
9 3 (9.38%) Actionable Insight
9 3 (9.38%) Aviation
9 3 (9.38%) Roadmaps
9 3 (9.38%) JIRA
9 3 (9.38%) WFM
9 3 (9.38%) User Acceptance Testing
9 3 (9.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 3 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (9.38%) Advertising
10 2 (6.25%) Data Management
10 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel

Workday Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 15 (46.88%) Workday HCM
2 1 (3.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.13%) Azure
1 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (50.00%) Finance
2 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
3 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Advertising
4 3 (9.38%) Aviation
5 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.13%) Banking
6 1 (3.13%) General Ledger
6 1 (3.13%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
1 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
1 1 (3.13%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.00%) Analytics
2 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (15.63%) Data Migration
3 5 (15.63%) Migration
3 5 (15.63%) Project Management
3 5 (15.63%) Validation
3 5 (15.63%) Workshop Facilitation
4 4 (12.50%) Data Validation
4 4 (12.50%) ERP
5 3 (9.38%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (9.38%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (9.38%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (9.38%) Roadmaps
5 3 (9.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (9.38%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (9.38%) User Experience
5 3 (9.38%) WFM
6 2 (6.25%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
1 2 (6.25%) SQL
2 1 (3.13%) Java
2 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) ACCA
2 1 (3.13%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) QA
Vendors
1 31 (96.88%) Workday
2 4 (12.50%) Adaptive Insights
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.13%) SAP
4 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow